Grandma Melinda would like to know why ladies (usually ages 15-40) are coloring their hair green, blue, pink or purple. --24.233.xxx.xx

I like it, why not? Easy fun, non harmful way to express yourself. --108.28.xxx.xx

I used to have my eyebrow pierced! --174.201.x.xxx

Stick to rainbows and unicorns! --173.22.xx.xx

Stick to rainbows and unicorns! --173.22.xx.xx

I heard on the radio that 87% of all women color their hair. That's crazy! --76.189.xxx.xxx

The new funky color trends are tempting! But I'm getting an orange truck! Grey haired lady in an orange truck. That's enough attention for me. --173.170.xxx.xxx

No, the women with the strange, attention seeking hair colors (ESPECIALLY the ones old enough to know better!) all have personality disorders, chronic pain, PTSD and fibromyalgia. Avoid them. --208.185.xxx.xx

You want a tattoo? Get a henna one. Want a piercing? Try a fake one. Do those first for a long while and then see what you think. I doubt it will have the same magic. --136.32.xxx.xxx

I thought that it meant something----like gay rights or lets keep our country's borders open or something or that sort. --24.233.xxx.xx

So if a person is 15 and wants to do that on the weekend and mom doesn't care, then go ahead. But a college level person who wants to be a professional should not have multicolor hair. The artist tenant on the second floor of my cute cape cod had blonde hair when I rented to her. Then her hair became jet black. Then one week it was green. But she paid her rent on time. She left to get low income housing in the town nearby where she worked. She was a good tenant. I would not hire someone with multicolor hair. I think it shows a tendency to act out and try to get people to look at them. I don't know who that attracts but I don't want that in my units. I would find a way to reject that applicant. I took someone with a sleeve tattoo and the first thing he did was bring in a huge Goth girl who smoked and it was non smoking so out he went. --73.33.xxx.xxx

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I don't know why, but it certainly seems like a cry for attention. So, why do so many of the colorful people seem offended if they see you looking at them? --68.105.xxx.xxx

If they have paid rent on time I don't really care, but I have no clue how they can return that to make rent payments. --76.188.xxx.xx

It's a current fad, and seems harmless to me. My daughter, who recently got a job as a tech reporter for a well-known national magazine, was invited to NYC to meet the headquarters staff. Two days before she went on the trip, she dyed her hair a weird peachy pink color. I was horrified, but the trip seems to have gone fine in spite of her hair. Better temporary hair dye than a permanent tattoo! (Unfortunately, she has a couple of those too.) --24.130.xx.xx

.Melinda, when I see someone like that,or with a tattoo I think they had money in their pocket, but didn't know what to do with it.Just when I see a reasonably attractive woman with a ring in her nose,my thoughts go back to when I was growing up on the farm in Northern Ireland,and my father and several of the local farmers would get together and put metal rings in the noses of two old sows, to keep them from digging up the crops in the nearest field.the girl reminds me of the old sow,.Just can't help it.Hope the coloured hair isn't as bad?..............Charlie............................................................... --174.199.xx.xxx

Looking back at the bell bottoms, flowered shirts, fringe and long straight hair with a head band that we wore in my youth... who am I to judge. --108.44.xx.xx

YOLO --24.26.xx.xx

Live the Dream, you post about purple hair made me remember my mother. She always wanted to make her gray white hair blonde. Finally she got it to be that color somehow. She lived to be 94 and died of brain shrinkage in hospice care done by myself and some nurses. When I saw her in her casket, her hair was beautifully styled, but the dumb hairdresser had made it purple because "she couldn't get that awful yellow out". Sad eh? I bet my mom was really annoyed. I told them off and they won't be doing that to me since I will make sure I go elsewhere. --73.33.xxx.xxx

Just had a pedicure this afternoon. I am now sporting cobalt blue toenails. :) --173.22.xx.xx

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When I was a kid my dental hygienist had pink, or blue, or teal...hair, depending upon the day (I am in my mid 60's). I'm too lazy to dye my grey and brown hair except when it is temporary and part of a costume. It is relatively harmless. Some dyes have harmful chemicals, but the unnatural colors are no more harmful than the natural tones. It is a current fashion fad. Fun. Who cares. --134.228.xxx.xx

Do you think it happens cause they drink to much Koolaid? --66.87.xx.xx

Someone has to keep L'Oreal in business.Better them than me,besides my hair is almost disappeared.Don't think there's enough there to have different colours.....................Charlie............................................... --174.199.xx.xxx

WMH, I get my toes painted "stripper" colors according to my daughter. For whatever reason I enjoy super glittery toes. Wouldn't put it on my fingers, and definetly wouldn't dress the part, but my feet... --68.107.xxx.x

Barbara, I'm with you on the gauges. I too have thought about sticking something through the holes ;) --173.22.xx.xx

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I have to say though,..I have had little sympathy for the films of women that have a bad hair cut or perm and cry like they have been informed they have a fatal disease. (er,.. my wife says I don't understand) --71.192.xxx.xxx

Where lots of people dye their hair, I just hope for Hair to dye. The good news is there are not many grays to worry about - or browns either --24.239.xx.xxx

But I dislike the nose piercing that reminds me of the bullrings and boogers.And the dinner plate ear plugs I think are ridicules albeit harmless. --185.89.xxx.xxx

It's only hair, and I'm like the larger piercings or tattoos, it's not permanent. --75.132.xxx.xx